The Democratization of American ChristianityA provocative reassessment of religion and culture in the early days of the American republic "The so-called Second Great Awakening was the shaping epoch of American Protestantism, and this book is the most important study of it ever published."—James Turner, Journal of Interdisciplinary History
Winner of the John Hope Franklin Publication Prize, the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic book prize, and the Albert C. Outler Prize In this provocative reassessment of religion and culture in the early days of the American republic, Nathan O. Hatch argues that during this period American Christianity was democratized and common people became powerful actors on the religious scene. Hatch examines five distinct traditions or mass movements that emerged early in the nineteenth century—the Christian movement, Methodism, the Baptist movement, the black churches, and the Mormons—showing how all offered compelling visions of individual potential and collective aspiration to the unschooled and unsophisticated. |
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... Mittie Hatch, an astute wordsmith, graciously proofed these pages. Portions of chapters 4, 5, and 6 appeared in different form as essays in the Journal of American History, in William L. List of Illustrations Acknowledgments.
... these pages . Portions of chapters 4 , 5 , and 6 appeared in different form as essays in the Journal of American History , in William L. Joyce et al . , Printing and xiii Society in Early America ( Worcester , Mass . , Acknowledgments.
... journal and to the American Antiquarian Society and Oxford University Press for permission to use this material . I am indebted to Mike Loux and Roger Skurski , colleagues in admin- istration at the University of Notre Dame . Over a two ...
... journals , and newspapers that inundated popular culture in the early republic . Particularly illuminating are the biographical accounts and journals that Methodist itinerants kept on the advice of Wesley and Asbury and that Baptists ...
... journal , another writer argued that because " the people are the ultimate judges " of government , they must interpret freedom of the press to mean the actual process of disseminating informa- tion . 32 Between 179o and 181o the United ...
Contents
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The Sovereign Audience | 125 |
The Right to Think for Oneself | 162 |
Upward Aspiration and Democratic Dissent | 193 |
The Recurring Populist | 210 |
A Sampling of Anticlerical | 227 |
Notes | 244 |
Index | 305 |
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The Democratization of American Christianity Nathan O. Hatch,Professor Nathan O Hatch Limited preview - 1989 |